Barrette.



UNITED STATES PATENT- oFFIois.

WILLIAM s. ssorirotn, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY;

BAR/BETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 21, 1906.Serial No. 344.445.

Patented July 9, 1907.

My invention relates to a novel bar-pin or barrette for keeping the hairtidy on a woman's head, and has for its object a barrette which willkeep the loose and stray hair away from the neck and can be securelyheld within the hair.

For. this purpose my invention consists of a barrette comprising a backor body portion, an abutment and means adapted to hold the hair againstsaid abutment.

The nature of my invention will best be understood in connection withthe. accompanying drawings in which-- I Figure]. is aplan view of oneform otbarrette. Figs. 2 and 3 are end views of the barrette shown'inFig. 1. Figs. 4 to 1]. are views illustrating various forms of myimproved barrette. I

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughoutthe seveal views.

- Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates afmine of celluloid, tortoiseshell or the like and forming the hacker body portion-of my improvedhair retainer. Upon this'hack is a longitudinal abutment 11 which ispreferabiy,provided witha recess 12- in the form of agroove Figs. 1 to6, or as a slot Figs. 7 and 8. This longitudinal abutment ll may be ofvarious forms as illustrated. In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 I have shown thisabutment as aspringy, concave cross-piece -13 integral with the frame 10and provided with the recess or groove 12.

At one end of the iraine 10 is provided ahinge piece 14 and at, theother a hook 15. To said hinge piece is pivoted a tongue or pin 16conforming to the cavity and r adapted to locked in said hook and to fitthe said reccss when-"so, locked. This tongue or pin when locked in thehookl5 .holds the hair in the recess 12 and presses it firmly againstthe abutment. The hair is thus firmly locked and the barrette securelyheld thereby. The edges of therecess are preferably rounded to preventthe cutting of the hair. I

I am aware that barrettes have been known in which a tongue or pin holdsthe hair between it, and the back of the barrette as. a sort of anabutment. This form,

however, does not securely hold within the hair, whereas applicantsbarrette'by reason of a specially formed abutment and particularly inproviding a recess therein, securely locks itself in the hair. I do notwish, however, to restrict myself to any particular construction of thisrecess nor to any particular shape of the back or body portion, orabutment. g

I claim: 7

1. A barrette or'hair retainer comprising a concave buck or body portionprovided at one-end with a hinge piece,-

and at the otherwith a hook, a narrow tonguepr pin composed of asinglepiece pivoted to said hinge piece and conforming to the concavityof thc back, a narrow recess slightly wider than the width ot'the tongueinsaid buck the edges of which form a longitudinal abutment, the saidtongue being adapted to fit said recess and when locked in said hook .tohold the hair in said recess and against said abutment.

2.. A barrette or hair retainer comprising a. concave back or bodyportion provided at the end with ahinge piece and .atthe other with ahook, a narrow tongue or pin composed of a single piece pivoted to saidhinge piece-and conforming to the concavity oi the back, a grooveslightly wider than the w th of the tongue, in said back forming alongi= tudinal' abilitment, the said tongue being adapted to fit saidgroove 'and when locked in said hook to hold the hair in said grooveandagainst said abutment.

3. A barrette or hair retainer comprising a back or body portionprovided with a recessed, longitudinal, concave, springy abutmentintegral therewith; and a tongue or pin pivotally connected to saidback, adapted to fit said recess and to hold .the hair against saidabutment nnd'in said recess. 7 i

Signed at Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, this19th dayot November, A. D. 1906.

- WILLIAM S. BECHTOLD.

Witnesses:

. Fnson E. Scmmrz,

SALLY 0. Yuorzxr.

